The Recovery of Beauty: Arts, Culture, Medicine [electronic resource] /
Saunders, Corinne.author.
Fuller, David.author.
Macnaughton, Jane.editor.
An interdisciplinary collection of essays exploring the complex and conflicted topic of beauty in cultural, arts and medicine, looking back through the long cultural history of beauty, and asking whether it is possible to 'recover beauty'.
Description based upon print version of record.
""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""List of Illustrations""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Notes on Contributors""; ""Introduction""; ""Part I: Mind, Body, Soul""; ""1 Beautiful Ideas: The Visibility of Truth""; ""2 Beauty, Virtue and Danger in Medieval English Romance""; ""3 Bathing for Beauty in the Middle Ages""; ""4 Posture is Beauty""; ""Part II: Art, Ideas, Ideals""; ""5 Beauty, Pain and Violence: Through Lessing and Nietzsche to King Lear""; ""6 Beauty Writes Literary History: Revisiting the Myth of Bloomsbury""; ""7 ?Raising Sparks?: An Interview with Michael Symmons Roberts""
""8 ?More natural than nature, more artificial than art?: An Interview with David Bintley""""Part III: Surgery, Reparation, Imagination""; ""9 ?Elegant? Surgery: The Beauty of Clinical Expertise""; ""10 Portraiture, Beauty, Pain""; ""11 War and Beauty: The Act of Unmasking in Pat Barker?s Toby?s Room and Louisa Young?s My Dear, I Wanted to Tell You""; ""Part IV: Rescuing Beauty""; ""12 Beauty in the Brain of the Beholder: Art, Neural Plasticity and Visual Pleasure""; ""13 The Pendulum of Taste: Architecture and the Rise of a State Aesthetic""; ""14 Beauty and the Sacred""
""Select Bibliography""""Index""
Includes bibliographical references and index.
An interdisciplinary collection of essays exploring the complex and conflicted topic of beauty in cultural, arts and medicine, looking back through the long cultural history of beauty, and asking whether it is possible to 'recover beauty'.
Performing arts.
Aesthetics.
Literature.
European literature.
Arts.
Fine arts.
Performing Arts.
Aesthetics.
Literature, general.
European Literature.
Arts.
Fine Arts.